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Sunday, February 21, 2016

The problem with being an English teacher.....

is that it often makes listening to music so incredibly painful. I am certainly not perfect with my grammar and language manipulation at all times, but gah.....

Like this lyric:

My head's spinning around I can't see clear no more.

What bothers me the most is that clear isn't clearly. The double-negative doesn't help. Needs some punctuation.

And then there is this doozy:Let me photograph you in this lightIn case it is the last timeThat we might be exactly like we were before we realized we were sad of getting old.What the freck? World's longest run-on sentence. I don't care if she makes a gazillion dollars a day, this lyric has "poorly written" all over it. But the Grand Poobah of Terrible Lyrics has to go to this Paula Cole song:So open up your morning lightAnd say a little prayer for IYou know that if we are to stay aliveThen see the peace in every I

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About Me

I am a mom of three diagnosed with OCD and GAD during my 2004-2005 postpartum period, although I very likely have been dealing with both since about age 10. They didn't disorder my life enough to require meds and therapy until after I became a mom.